The SANS Institute released a new cloud security report recently based on a survey of several hundred companies across the US, Asia, Europe, and Canada. The companies surveyed ranged from the small (under 1000 employees) to the very large (over 50000 employees) and represented a variety of industries including 32 percent
In a massive patch update on Tuesday, Adobe released security patches for 87 vulnerabilities in four of its products - Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Reader, Adobe Flash Player, and Adobe Media Encoder. As many as 84 of the 87 patches address vulnerabilities in Acrobat and Reader. Of these, 36 fall in the “information
We all receive malicious or spammy emails from time to time, and while most are easy to tell apart from legitimate mail, there are some that require greater attention to detect. An Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE), more commonly known as spam, may be an irritant, but it is not a threat to
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released its latest Binding Operational Directive (BOD 19-02), “Vulnerability Remediation Requirements for Internet-Accessible Systems”, this week. The directive supersedes BOD 15-01, “Critical Vulnerability Mitigation Requirement for Federal Civilian Executive Branch Departments and Agencies’ Internet-Accessible Systems”, which came out in 2015. BOD 15-01 required federal agencies
Survey finds that 56 percent of Americans have never checked to see they were ever data-breach victims According to a survey conducted by Lexington Law, most Americans either do not know what to do when they become aware of serious data breaches in the country or don’t care enough to check if
The Board is looking to the CIO for constant business transformation, in order to meet the market needs. Most CIOs get lost while satisfying business requirements, and are not able to focus on Security. That is one of the main reasons why Retailers are constantly getting hacked, day after day. PCI can
As someone who previously worked in developing speaker bureaus and C-Level events he was always an executive that I wanted to meet, speak with, and learn from. What is interesting, is that this occurred some 20+ years ago. So, where are we now? Well, what I can tell you is that even
What is Ransomware? Ransomware is a type of malware which encrypts your personal files and sells the decryption key back to you for a ransom, normally in the range of hundreds to thousands of dollars. How does one get infected? Fundamentally, ransomware is simply another type of computer virus, and your computer
Security people also have to be “light on their feet” and “think outside of the box,” because the hacks keep coming, and the hackers are always finding new ways to affect your systems. One can never say that a hacker has found unintended consequences when going after users, because they are always
Although computer hackers have been breaking into systems, disabling and attacking networks, stealing intellectual property, and taking control over compromised systems for decades, the modern era of cyber-security only started in the ‘90s. But even in the early days of the new era, computer hacks were split into two main categories: social
